Oregon's sri yantra. A gift of the Circle Makers

Updated Sunday 16th
November 1997

As you may know, Eastern Oregon was Gifted with
the Sri Yantra Mandala Formation in August 1990. It arrived in a dry wilderness
lake bed east of Steens Mountain, and consisted of 13.3 MILES of lines, each 10"
wide and scored to a depth of 3 inches in the hardpan. The graphic below is the
Sri Yantra, and the Pattern discovered in the dry earth was identical in all
respects.

Four jokers claimed it - the joke was that they
alleged they pulled a 'garden cultivator' like a plow for OVER 13 MILES, in an
officially designated Wilderness Area, in the August desert heat - where not
even cars are permitted. They concocted the story that they hauled all their
gear 3/4-mile to the site each day. (It turned out that that was one of many
discrepancies in their story, for they'd allegedly told a sergeant from the Air
National Guard that their campsite was actually two miles from the Formation.) A
second discrepancy: In their initial 'confession letter' to the newspaper they
wrote that all four of them were hitched up simultaneously to pull the
cultivator, but the video shows only two of them attempting to pull it. Another
one I found of interest is the apparent major exertion seen to be required to
gouge a thin 1/2"-deep line into the earth (as seen in the video) Vs that needed
to create a trench 10" wide and 3" deep - apparently without effort, according
to the same video. (The reason the 'real' line was easy to dig out is because it
was already there - they had apparently filled in the trench with the soft dirt,
and hoped to give the illusion that they were digging the furrow with their
plow.) These 'variations', as well as various others, stretched my own and
others' credibility well beyond believability. One can reasonably conclude that
the only creativity these four expressed was through their over-active
imaginations and not through any grand desert artistry.

Interestingly, the skies above the Sri Yantra
are regularly used as part of the Idaho Air National Guard's pilot training
area. According to the lieutenant pilot who first spotted the huge Pattern on
August 10, no pilots had reported a design-in-progress; the Pattern had simply
'appeared' one day...

Various points in the purported 'documentation'
which those who claimed the Sri Yantra offered were easily picked apart by
researchers who subsequently visited the site. I, too, have noted non-sequiturs
and blatant manipulation in previous fraudulent 'Crop Circle documentaries',
manufactured and aired solely to convince an unknowing public that the Circle
Phenomenon is not worth serious study. I strongly urge each of you to use
critical discernment when evaluating any kind of 'evidence' presented by anyone
about anything - perhaps most especially so-called 'expert' testimony - and
especially as regards the Circles.

NO video footage or photographs anywhere
document an alleged creation of crop art (alleged man-made patterns) in progress
from ground level AND SIMULTANEOUSLY from the air, to confirm that the alleged
'finished product' is indeed what the people 'below' are alleging to have
stomped out in the crop. (Showing people stomping around in the dark, then in
the next sequence showing a Formation from the air *does not mean that the
aerial is the 'finished product' shown in the previous scene*! Through clever
and manipulative editing, that is precisely the conclusion the viewer is being
'set-up' to accept. It is not, however, the truth ... )

The exception to valid video documentation is
the Arthur Clarke footage of a 5-petal flower pattern. Although there was no
simultaneous aerial documentation, I subsequently visited this crop art and was
able to confirm to my own satisfaction that indeed there were no CircleMakers'
Energies within it. (Many have claimed genuine Formations as their own, for
*claiming* one is effortless, while stomping one out is a major and potentially
seriously risky endeavour. And of course, no one has ever substantiated *how*
they 'made it', so the statement is simply accepted on a word-of-mouth claim.)

Through personal investigation of the
Formations, I've discovered that there have been *literally* a mere handful of
man-made designs in Wiltshire and Hampshire over the past five years - the great
majority of the Formations, including those in the US, have indeed been genuine
Gifts. Confirmation of my findings is provided by extensive and meticulous lab
analyses here in the States.

But back to Oregon: The four men who claimed it,
of course, offered no in-progress proof of their 'creativity', but made a feeble
attempt in a hastily put-together, poorly thought out video piece to show,
through reverse engineering (for the Formation was in fact already on the ground
when they arrived on the scene) 'how they made it'. The problem, as clearly
shown in photographs and the video, is that the lines forming the Sri Yantra
*already existed* - they extended in front of where they were dragging their
'plow' - at the time they were claiming to be in the process of making them!

In one segment of the tape, it appears as though
they'd filled in a short section of one 'genuine' line then pretended to show
how they allegedly scored it into the extremely hard, Sun-baked lake bottom. It
was August, and the area was regularly 'scorched' under a desert Sun.
Researchers who subsequently visited the site noted that the ground was
impenetrable below the top 1/4" of dry, powdery earth. No tire marks at all were
present, not even from the alleged 'cultivator', although a month later as
vehicles drove up to the Formation, the tires of those vehicles' left 1/4"-deep
impressions in the crumbly earth. And never mind asking how these jokers managed
precise and perfectly scored lines 10" wide and 3" deep, with consistently
bevelled sides, for an equivalent distance of over 13 miles, in the August
desert heat when they could barely, and with much effort, score a short
1/2"-deep line; and don't ask how they measured, surveyed, and determined
bearings for the Pattern - with its complex integrated perfection of nine
interlocking triangles - before they began their alleged plow work. (The Sri
Yantra Pattern contains extremely intricate geometrical relationships.) Never
mind asking, because they, like all other people who've *claimed* the
CircleMakers' Formations, offered no technical explanations.

Perhaps most telling of all, for me, was the
segment of footage on which one of the 'artists' who claimed it was
video-interviewed. While he was answering general questions about his paintings
and personal philosophy, he was reasonably animated and made normal eye-contact
with his interviewer. In a later segment in which the two of them were walking
down a road while continuing the interview, the artist stopped walking when the
questioning turned once again to the Sri Yantra, literally bowed his head, and
looked down at the ground. All the viewer saw of him was the top of his hat.
During the entire conversation about his alleged participation in the
construction of it, he never once made eye contact either with the interviewer
or the camera, but stared at the ground. I very clearly received the impression
that he was painfully aware that 'his eyes were the windows to his soul', and he
was clearly determined to not let anyone see into either while he was, as was
obvious to me, lying.

For additional information on this Sri Yantra
Formation, check out Dr. Deardorff's excellent report in UFO Magazine, volume 6
#3, 1991 (A Symbol on the Oregon Desert).

If you have any information on (and especially
photos of) Crop Circles which may have arrived in India, Africa, Siberia,
Russia, Australia - or actually, anywhere in the world - rather than assume we
already know about it, please contact us so we can help share the information
with the world. I'm especially interested in Patterns more complex than a
'simple' Circle, discovered in any medium: snow, ice, earth, mud, weeds, sand,
or ?. If a Pattern is in vegetation, the plants must not have been blackened or
have subsequently died - for the crop in the Formations always remains viable.
(When 'dead' circles or ovals are discovered, I do not consider them 'CropCircles',
for I believe they are created by other means. However, I'm not sure about this,
and remain open.)

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